Trigger Automation if if first Person comes home

Configuration
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Hello Everyone,

I try to trigger an automation only if the first person comes home. My yaml code looks like this:


trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.p1
    to: home
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.p2
    to: home
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.p3
    to: home
condition:
  - condition: and
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: person.p1
        state: not_home
      - condition: state
        entity_id: person.p2
        state: not_home
      - condition: state
        entity_id: person.p3
        state: not_home

The automation doesn’t trigger because when the trigger fires the conditions can’t be met anymore. Of course I could create a separate automation per person and then only check the other two in the conditions.

Does anyone see a smarter way? How can I solve this in one automation?

Thank you very much!

2

You can trigger off the zone.home entity. It has the count of the number of people at home, so when somebody gets home it will go from 0 to >0 (2 people might arrive together).

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3

Zone state trigger:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - zone.home
    from: "0"
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4

Wow thank you very much!! This worked like a charm!!